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Budapest or Cairo?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
Budapest

Photo: Perituss, CC0

The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
Cairo

Photo: Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on wellness and getting around with your weighting.

Cairo
50
match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

BudapestCairo
Beaches & swimming. Budapest leads by 15 points.15
Food & drink. Budapest leads by 3 points.3
Culture & sights. Cairo leads by 16 points.16
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 30 points.30
Nature & outdoors. Budapest leads by 28 points.28
Day trips. Budapest leads by 2 points.2
Good for families. Budapest leads by 30 points.30
Getting around. Budapest leads by 43 points.43
Shopping & style. Cairo leads by 3 points.3
Affordability. Cairo leads by 33 points.33
Live music & performing arts. Budapest leads by 26 points.26
Wellness & relaxation. Budapest leads by 83 points.83
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Budapest and Cairo.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyBudapestCairo
Daytime high27 °C36 °C
Night-time low17 °C23 °C
Rainfall in the month75 mm0 mm
Sunshine10 hours a day12 hours a day
Daylight16 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Cairo
19
21
24
29
33
35
36
36
34
30
26
21
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Cairo
6
5
10
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
7
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Cairo
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Cairo
7
7
9
9
11
11
12
11
10
10
9
7

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestCairo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
4 h 50 m
€240-288
CAI · 17 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
3 h 45 m
€147-173
CAI · 17 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
2 h 10 m
€154-167
CAI · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
4 h 25 m
€249-480
CAI · 17 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
3 h 10 m
€280-302
CAI · 17 km
JeddahJED
4 h 40 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€158-202
CAI · 17 km
Kuwait CityKWI
4 h 25 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
2 h 35 m
€137-145
CAI · 17 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
4 h 5 m
€245-328
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
9 h 30 m
€644-746
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBudapestCairo
Official languageHungarianArabic
CurrencyForint (HUF)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation117 m23 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre156 non-stop destinationsCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestCairo
City population1,685,2099,801,536
People per km²3,20918,564
Museums within 10 km8148
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.